Dec 31, 2022 · The Criterion Collection presents Michael Haneke’s debut feature film The Seventh Continent on Blu-ray, presenting the film its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. It’s currently available exclusively through Criterion’s latest set, Michael Haneke: Trilogy, and is found on the first dual-layer disc. It has been given a 1080p/24hz high ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Documentary about Haneke’s career featuring interviews with the director and actors Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; 2005 interview featuring Michael Haneke discussing Benny's Video; Deleted scenes from Benny’s Video; 2005 interview featuring Michael Haneke discussing 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance ...

Dec 31, 2022 · The third and final dual-layer disc in Criterion’s new set, Michael Haneke: Trilogy, presents 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, delivered here with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The master was taken from a scan of the 35mm original camera negative.

Apr 15, 2008 · Benny's Video Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative, profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation. Benny (a frighteningly affectless Arno Frisch), the teenage son of wealthy, disengaged parents (Angela Winkler and Ulrich Mühe), finds release in ...

Jan 12, 2025 · The Criterion Collection groups together three of Michael Haneke’s early feature films forming a loose trilogy: The Seventh Continent, Benny’s Video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. Each film is presented in this set (aptly titled Michael Haneke: Trilogy) on an individual dual-layer disc in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1. All three ...

Apr 10, 2016 · Re: Michael Haneke #20 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:24 pm I preferred the original film for the actors chosen (though have grown quite a bit of affection for the English-language remake because the HD prints/discs available are pristine and gorgeous, and Michael Pitt is excellent), but I'm with Colin on Funny Games in general.

Nov 10, 2015 · One of the world’s most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Oscar–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with devastating precision and artistry. His drama <I>Code Unknown</I>, the first of his many films made in France, may be his most inspired work. Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, …

May 12, 2019 · Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, <I>Funny Games</I> spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home …

Nov 4, 2004 · This is my vote for film of the year. I'd love to get a discussion going--there's so much to talk about. The film is powerful in so many different ways.

Feb 21, 2007 · And all his films are an exploration of guilt, so that's nothing new. But I still think that Haneke's rescent films are better than 99% of what gets shown at a normal cinema, so I don't mind the hype. Even if I agree with gokinsmen. I don't think Haneke intended for people to find the ultimate answer to the film.